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Budapest, March 23, 2007 16:30

From April 1, 2007 István Maradi will hold the post of Magyar Telekom’s Chief Information Officer.

As Magyar Telekom announced in a press release yesterday, the company’s Board decided on the creation of a new position of Chief Information Officer. István Maradi will hold this position as of April 1, 2007. Parallel with the appointment István Maradi will become a member of Magyar Telekom’s Management Committee.

István Maradi (43) graduated in 1989 from the Technical University of Budapest with a degree in communications engineering, specialized in GSM and mobile communication, then in 2000 obtained an MBA degree at the Open University of London. He started his carrier in Matáv PKI Research Institute as mobile telecommunications researcher. Then he participated in the start-up of Westel Rádiótelefon Kft.   with responsibility for network design. In the initial period of the company’s operations he worked as design engineer, then as radio engineer, from 1992 as director for network operations. From 1995 he was director of operations at Westel 900 Rt., then at Westel Mobil Rt., from 2001 to 2006 Chief Officer and Service Development Director of Westel Mobile Rt. (later T-Mobile Magyarország Rt.). He played a key role in construction and development of the network, operations and selection of supliers involved in these operations, and in the introduction of new services. He contributed with his work to T-Mobile Magyarország achieving and keeping a market leader position.